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unleash on a little no rules Friday here getting ready for
Easter. Hopefully everybody's having a
good start to their day. Kiddos are out of school, so
you're going to have to find something to do with them today
and hopefully they don't drive you nuts.
What's happening? As I said, it's a no rules
Friday and we've got some more stuff today with the with the
code. So yesterday we hooked you up.
You know, Jay, jump in on this real fast here.
So yesterday we hooked you guys up with we have a great
collaboration, which is awesome with EA Sports.
We gave away 25 free codes for Madden 26 yesterday.
We're doing the same thing, but only college football today.
So 25 free codes. J Rod, tell them how they could
win, buddy, How can you win the prize?
So yeah. So today what we're going to do
to make it a little easier, I've still got to get in contact with
a couple of you. I see someone in the chat who I
still got to get in contact with, so I'll explain this and
then you can do that as well. Jerry Nelson.
So what we're going to do is today, similar to yesterday,
what you're going to do is drop your console info, your Xbox,
PS-5 also available for switching PC as well.
So if you've got those, you could say that as well and then
leave your e-mail. So leave your e-mail instead of
your social handle. It'll just be easier for me to
get in contact with. So anyone who also won the
Madden yesterday, drop your e-mail as well.
And then for today as well, the first 25 people to drop their
console and their e-mail will get a code for College Football
26. I love it.
Drop your console e-mail. OK, and then J Rod's going to
take care of that. That's awesome.
What are we 20 days away for the draft?
And I'm starting to feel more and more.
I would do a lot of Yankees here today, but I tweeted this before
and I I was saying this on The Jets collective during the week
and I even thought about this really going back a couple of
weeks now. Listen, obviously it's going to
take somebody to want to trade with The Jets.
The more I think about this and it looks like they're going to
take Reese. That's pretty much every mock
has The Jets taking Reese from Ohio State, which I'm, I'm not,
I'm not against that, but he's not a clear cut decision for me.
So, you know, I, I'm really, I, I hope and I think that they
will be because that's been Mooji's MO so far.
I hope The Jets are open for business.
I, I really do. I would love to see them trade
out of #2 you know, I don't know who would jump up, whether it's
for Jeremiah love, whether it's for Reese, if somebody loves him
more than The Jets. But I, I'm just getting really
excited for the draft. And obviously the relationship
with EA Sports will do some stuff getting into the draft,
but I I'm starting to feel the draft more and more, which is
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Yankees opening day. I love opening, you know?
Yeah, it's funny. I used to love when the Yanks
and even the Mets, because my dad's a Mets fan, as many of you
know, I love when the local teams open up at home.
I've got to shifted on that. I kind of like getting a few
games under your belt, especially when you come back
and you've won five out of six games like the Yankees have.
And now you've got the celebration today in the Bronx.
Weather's going to be fine. A little little misty this
morning, but it's good. Sun's going to pop out before I
get into it. Jay, how was the Passover meal?
Good time with your friends. Yeah, no good time.
I mean Wednesday was with the friends, yesterday was with the
fam so went up to CT for a couple hours, just got a lunch
it was chill. Got we have a little wine.
Are we doing a little what? What are we eating and what are
we drinking? All right, so Wednesday we
probably, we had like 2 bottles of wine.
I think, you know, perfect, you know, kept it, kept it casual.
But good night. My friend's girlfriend made like
brisket. She made like some meatballs.
It's like cranberry rice. I don't like cranberries.
That doesn't say OK, OK, I'm not a even at Thanksgiving, I can't
stand cranberry. Really never touch it.
No, not even if. They're like the It's just like
a little one in rice. Just a.
Little now I'm picking it out or I'm not having.
It so had that and then yesterday it was just like, it
was just like a lunch, like it was just a lunch at a
restaurant. Like I had what I had.
OK. All right.
Chicken pasta so. So one of my you mentioned
brisket. It just triggered something one
of my best friends Dan, right? So his, his mom is not Jewish.
His dad is Jewish, right? And and the mom, you know,
really and his his dad's no longer with us.
This was the gentleman Shelly who was in the fantasy Baseball
League that we did for He was there before I joined.
He was in there for 20 something years and then he passed away.
Great guy. But he used to Dan we we lived
together when we were off campus and he was a baseball player too
up at Marist and he would come back because he lived in
Rockland County, which really isn't that far from Marist.
Maybe an hour. So a lot of Sundays during the
fall, like when we didn't really have the game ready thing, I, I
would go to go to his parents house and his mom would make
meals. And then a lot of times, you
know, she would just, you know, make stuff to bring back and put
it in the apartment. And she always made brisket.
And like my mom never really made brisket growing up.
It, it was so good. And it, it's so bad because I
would devour it, man, He'd like, wait, dude, where is it's in my
stomach. That's where it is, buddy.
And help with your mom's a good cook.
So a little brisket is good for the soul.
Outstanding. So again, a happy Passover and
happy Easter. Get ready for an awesome
weekend. Can't wait.
It's going to be great. Now talk about the Yankee
opener, right? And you know, I don't I don't
really. Yes, if you would have won every
game, that's literally a a way that you could have started the
season better. But when you think about
everything that the Yankees have done so far, I know it's a small
sample and I'm sure there's going to be some overreactions.
I will stand by what I've said going into the season.
I was saying this over the winter where I really think and
I, I thought that and I certainly I'm, I'm only more
emboldened now based on the small sample of evidence and
especially the Cam Schlittler looks to be the real deal.
Like I really thought that he would be in the second year.
I think the Yankees rotation at the end of the year is going to
be the best in baseball. And I think that that's what he
what's going to give the Yankees a real chance, like a real
chance. Not like, well, they're the
Yankees and they've always got a chance to win the World Series
because that's what we're conditioned to think.
This Yankee team looks a little different.
I know, I know it's early. My God, it's almost ridiculous
saying that, but you can't start the year better unless you were
six and O think about the record.
Phenomenal. All right, five and one great.
But now think about the optics, right?
They have allowed, and we've talked about this last couple of
days, they've allowed six runs, six runs, six runs in six games
here. Now, think about this.
The Red Sox, who have a really good staff, the Red Sox have
given up 32. Toronto's giving up 28.
Just as a point of comparison for a bad team, the Chicago
White Sox already have given up 52 runs, J Rod 52, and the
Yankees give it, give it up a measly 6.
So, yeah, you look at some, I mean, it's crazy.
You look at some of the numbers that I don't want to just
bombard you with numbers, but, you know, plus 18 run
differential. All right, Everybody knows that.
Look at the website, look at the stats.
Anybody can regurgitate that. But what I love about the
Yankees start here. A couple of things.
Number one, obviously the pitching, but they've already
and this is a small thing, but it adds up Over the course of
162 Yanks have already knocked off a West Coast trip off the
schedule. So you know, I don't love being
sent out West to start this that like that.
I don't I don't mind opening up on the road, but give me a
little Camden Yards, give me a little Toronto.
I don't know, give me even something in the Midwest.
Didn't love going out West, but the Yankees did.
They won five out of six games. So that is 1 fewer West Coast
trip as you get into the the doldrums of the monotony of an
incredibly lengthy 6 month baseball season.
That's one fewer trip the Yanks don't have to make and all the
other teams in their division, who I believe are, I think it's
the best division in baseball really do.
There's a couple others that are close.
I think the AL ES is going to be the best.
And that's something the Yankees don't have to worry about as
much as the other teams. All right, small little win
there. But here's the other thing too,
like the Yanks are winning and the Yankees look crisp catching
the ball. They look crisp on the bases.
They're still going to figure out the roles in the bullpen.
I think that's going to be fluid and I think it's going to get
better as the year goes on with some of these young
flamethrowers. But they're winning.
Aaron Judges hitting $1.25 and Jazz has hit the Buck 74.
So I think about this right as the Yankees are introduced, you
know, in a gloomy, although again, the sun's going to come
out at some point, I think by first pitch.
And I love like it's whether it's the playoffs, whether it's
opening day, whether it's the home opener, I just love, I love
the introductions. Like I, I don't care.
I could be 95 years old, God willing, and I will sit there
and I will smile as I see these players introduced.
I've always loved it. And I think part of the reason
is like, you know, now with with youth sports, youth baseball,
like a lot of the kids get introduced for everything right
there. It's almost over the top.
I don't think I ever had that. I don't know that.
And now that I think about, I don't know that I was ever
introduced as a starting line up.
The only time we did it in college, never once did it in
high school and certainly never did it playing.
We didn't have club ball that we had travel baseball.
No. So I I love it.
I love seeing the players trot out and I remember when I was a
kid, I'd be in the basement and I would try to emulate these
guys coming out of the top step like Matty Lee and Ricky, you
know, and tapping up their boys. It's just, you know, it's, it's
a part of me that's never going to age.
It's a part of me that's never going to give it up.
I just, I, it just makes me feel good.
So I can't wait to watch this today.
I can't wait to jump into the coverage.
And, you know, listen, you look at some of the good teams that
are off, off the rough starts, like the Red Sox pitching has
not been very good. I do still think that the Mets
will be good, maybe not as good as I thought, but I the Mets are
going to figure stuff out. I don't think it's time to sound
the alarm there. Bichette's going to hit other
guys with Lindor's eventually going to hit.
I don't like the optics of their start just in terms of their
energy and and being connected and playing fundamental ball.
You know, whether it's getting thrown and thrown out of the
plate. We talked about this against the
Pirates on a double in the gap by Soto Orland or not knowing
how many outs there were Orland or getting picked off for.
I mean, it's been a rough week for Francisco Lindor.
Now the story's about, and I actually, I do believe this
about how, you know, he was, I mean, he was the main impetus.
But he, I I believe that on some level, I, I can't quantify it,
but I do, I do believe that there's some culpability for
Lindor greasing the skids for some of his former teammates.
I believe that. Now, do I believe that it's
politically motivated? Maybe a little bit.
Yeah. I'm not afraid to say it.
Maybe a little bit. And, you know, it's funny.
It's about the Yankees, but I'm just kind of painting a bigger
picture here. The you know, that was five
years for Lindor. You know, he's he's had some
good years for really good years, second in the MVP couple
years ago, but he's also had some very frustrating and very
mystifying moments, right. And if you believe now again, I
to what extent do I believe it? I believe it more than not.
But if you really believe that Lindor was that again, the
impetus behind whether it's a Pete and a MO or Pete or a MO or
whatever being shipped out for, you know, political reasons,
reasons or just a disconnect in the clubhouse, whatever it might
be. Like if the Mets don't wake up
and if Lindor doesn't start playing Chris baseball, not only
he's got a hit, but he's just got to look more engaged.
I'll tell you what, man, I I think that Francisco Lindor, if
things don't change, which I think that they will.
But if they don't, I link Lynn Lynn, I think that the met fans
who still and I don't think that there's an overwhelming
percentage of you, but those of you who still look at him as
like the guy or like the met who could walk on water, I think
that that's going to dissipate if it hasn't already.
I saw I this this to me, this to me is going to be the defining
year for Lindor because and and and less let much lesser extend
Soto now that you got to make the playoffs.
If you Soto after last year, Soto's going to beast.
The numbers will be there, but like if the Mets have an
underachieving season and they look sloppy and there's not a
lot of chemistry or whatever, even if it's a bit of a
manufactured story, it's going to be a massive problem for
Lindor because he's going to be the target because there's
really no other target at this point.
What are you getting Simeon, who's in his mid whatever, 36
years old who hasn't hit for two years?
No, you're going to get on. Brett Beatty.
I mean, no, are are you going to get on bench?
You know, rookie, I, I don't think so.
You're not going to get on Peralta because he's going to be
good. You're not going to get on
McClain because he's going to be good.
I mean, you know, to me, the, the, the possible targets, and
I'm not even trying to make this more than it is, but it's so
it's a warning flare. Yeah.
It's not the NFL. It's not the first month of the
season when you're one in three and the skies falling and the,
and the, the earth is caving in and it's just vitriol and venom
and just negative energy and it's loud and it's it's
unavoidable. It's baseball.
It's one week of the season, but based on last year and based on
the narratives and the things that I talked about, Mendoza not
having a good year, this really is the worst possible way for
the Mets to start the season. So the Mets do need to get
going. I think that they will and we'll
see. Now, the Yankees, right?
One thing that I've said, I've said this, but I'm not alone in
saying this, but I said this for a while and it's bothered me
about the Yankees. It's it's continuously
frustrated me. It hasn't really confused me
because I have a strong opinion. It's not like I don't know what
to think. I've got a strong opinion on it.
I think that the Yankees so far, they have failed Aaron Judge.
They have failed them because you've got the best player this
century, right? And I know all time he's a
pitcher, but the best hitter this century.
I think for me, you know, vintage, peak Mattingly, it's
close because he was a great defender as well.
I think he's the most talented Yankee I've ever seen.
And you know, championship or not, and I'm on the record with
this just for me, and some of you disagree with this and I get
it. It's not going to shape my
ultimate opinion of Aaron Judge, all right, as a New York Yankee,
as a baseball player. Now, Mattingly's the only all
time Yankee that doesn't have a championship.
We know that, right? All the other luminaries, Ruth
and Gehrig and DiMaggio and Berra and Whitey Ford and Reggie
and Munson and Nettles and a Rod and Jeets and MO and Pettit and
all those guys, right, Posada, you got to have the championship
on the resume to almost punctuate and and it's it's
almost unfair, but it is what it is to punctuate and in some ways
to validate your Yankee career. Honestly, I think it's a crock
of shit because I think that there's just too many variables
that you can't control. And I went through this the
other day and many of you found this interesting based on the
comments, like Jalen Brunson. You know, I don't like the way
the Knicks look. I don't think the Knicks going
to win the championship this year.
I don't think they're very connected.
I don't like their chemistry and I don't even like the way their
talent compliments one each other one another.
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they figure it out with
five games to go, whatever it is in the regular season, they get
healthy, they win and they shut me up.
And I hope that that's the case, right?
But think about and the guy who's going to really feel the
Heat most would be Cat, because he's an easy target.
But really, at the end of the day, the Bucks got to stop with
the best player, right? That's Jalen Brunson,
undeniably. If the Knicks come up short, you
know, think about all the times, whether it's a usage rate on
offense or just how many times you play and he's not a good
defender, but just how many times you play defense over the
course of an NBA, How many possessions do you have?
How many possessions does the opponent have?
All the chances. I mean, it's basic if you think
about it, 20 plus shots a game, you know, 506070 defensive sets.
Even if you're not, you know, on the ball, weak side, whatever it
might be, getting a steal, getting a rebound and you're
boxing out, you can impact the basketball game every single
possession. You could shoot one for 13 and
your plus minus could still be decent if when you're on the
floor, other guys are making shots and you're handling
business on defense. Whereas with somebody like Aaron
Judge, and I know he's had some moments, last year changed a
lot, but the World Series was a mess for him and he's had other
moments where he hasn't come up very big.
But think about how many times Aaron Judge gets the impact, you
know, A7 game series, 28 at bats, you know, couple of walks,
so maybe 3233 plate appearances, couple of pop ups a game, maybe
a base of a double down the line.
Maybe you have a chance to throw somebody out at second or third
or at home on the bases. But it's fairly minimal just in
terms of volume compared to the other sports, right?
So I say that because it does look a little different this
year. It does feel a little different
in the smallest possible sample. Understood.
But they owe him. And just because they look good
now and just because when Cole comes back and Rodon comes back
and even Schmidt comes back and these flame thrown arms carve
out more of a roll in the back of the bullpen before Bednar,
The Yankees really I, I, I including the Dodgers, like not
just in the American League. The Yankees have a chance,
chance to be the best team in baseball.
Now, I don't know if they'll get there.
And the way the bottom third of the order is right now, I don't
think they'll be the best team in baseball.
I think they might be the best to me in the American League.
And I bring up what they owe Judge because time's ticking.
I mean, he's not 27 or 28. He came up late, played in
college. We know that.
So what is HE333434? I think Aaron Judges.
How many more years do we have of absolute?
I know he's not hitting now. Absolute peak vintage error
judge. You hope it's 3 or 4.
You know, I don't know how he's going to age.
He's a fluid athlete. It's not like he's stiff and
slow, but he is a big man and there's not a lot of big
players. Winfield 66 Dave Parker, 6566
You know, Richie Sexton was 6-7, but not, you know, not in Aaron
Judge's category. So I don't really know how he's
gonna age. I don't know if he's gonna
remain A+ defender in right field, you know, for a couple
years. I don't know if he moves to
exclusively ADH in a couple years or maybe they try to put
him at first base at some point. I don't know those answers.
What I do know is you've got about certainly have a finite
window with all athletes. You've got about two years like
of I at this year, next year, and so basically 3 and then the
year after that. And then to me, all bets are
off. And you got to hope he stays
healthy during these peak years. So they owe him.
They owe him, right? And I want to present you with
this, as you know, the red, white and blue bunting and the
starting line of the entire rosters introduced in that place
going to be popping today. I saw my guy Keith, and I've got
to go. I'm going to go to, I'm going to
take him up on an invitation. Did you see Mcpherson's tweet
this morning? I mean, first of all, all day
yesterday he was tweeting he couldn't wait for the game.
I think he had a picture. I I just saw his post on
Instagram like an hour. Ago the bodega.
Yeah, Yeah, I think so. I don't know the name of the
bodega, but there's, it's right by the stadium.
And that's where he goes and he pregames and they've got like
the bodega enters to a little courtyard, right?
Old school. We're talking old.
Yeah, old school Bronx and they go every game.
The creature is a bunch of his buddies.
He's become friendly with everybody.
They go like 100 and 5200 deep. Like they're basically
tailgating for every home game. So my guy Keith is absolutely
fired up. The whole, the whole city.
I, I can feel it. I I really could, even though
it's early, I feel like the last couple of years, outside of the
year when the Yankees got Soto, which was very recent, there's
always been this reticence, understandably so, because their
rosters haven't been very good. Release championship caliber
championship worthy. I feel like, and and maybe I'm
wrong. So you got to tell me.
You got to check me in the comments there.
I feel like there's a different level of belief and certainly a
even a deeper level of hope. But I mean, there's almost
always hope. You always hope something good
happens. I feel like it's a little
different this year. Now, the only way it won't truly
be different really. Number one, if the pitching
doesn't become what I think it's going to become, and I've got
great confidence it will. So I'm not worried about that.
The one thing that I'm really worried about the Yankees is
their bottom third of the order. I can't stand it.
I cannot stand 789. So right now you're rolling out
Caballero. You're, you know, you're rolling
out Wells. I, I did a segment on McMahon
the other day. I mean, Ryan McMahon, he's just,
he's just never going to hit man.
Now, if he was an average fielder, I'd be screaming, cut
them, get rid of them, trade them, eat the money, which they
probably wouldn't because they very rarely do that.
But he is an elite third baseman.
And defensively, you know, some of the stats, because I said it
said it the other day, I think the average ground ball rate is
14.2 something like that throughout baseball.
And like Max Freed is a lefty in that you know that that inward
action on the righty hitters where they just bag it into the
ground because it's cutting it on their hands or cutting it on
their ankles, that's going to third base a lot.
And you need a guy who can pick it.
Like you can't have some sloppy, you know, power hitting, you
know, mess of a third base. But defensively, because that
would be an issue downstream in big games, in clutch moments,
high leverage spots. I know he's a great defender.
He's never going to hit. I can live with that if he's
truly your 9 hitter. If I see a little growth from
Austin Wells, which I'm not expecting, I think he's going to
be a 25 home run guy, which 225 to 30.
Now, Ben Rice is different, but Austin Wells just seems to be
already kind of who he is. And then you get to the seven
spot, you know, usually it's going to be Caballero or Volpe.
And Caballero is a backup and Volpe at this point is a below
average Major League hitter. So Can you imagine?
I think really I think there's two ways.
Feeling all the good vibes about the Yankees start and the home
opener and the pitching winning without Judge, even though he's
got two home runs, really not doing anything.
Like, to me, there are two ways. And it's going to take
aggressiveness and it's going to take AL's willingness to, you
know, cut big checks, which I think he will, I think, and
Cashman's ability to to be proactive early this season.
I don't mean now, but I don't mean right at the deadline.
I'm talking about a month before if the Yankees go out and find
themselves a true lead off hitter, Not many out there, but
a true lead off hitter, Guy who's on base, you know, 3536,
thirty, 7% of the time, good walk rate, good contact rate,
good wheels, doesn't have to even be a 280 hitter, just a
true lead off hitter. If they could get that or if
they could get a third baseman who could catch it but also hit
much better than McMahon. And that part's not tough,
right? To me, the Yankees were a World
Series champion. I honestly believe that unless
again, unforeseen things, ridiculous rash of injuries,
because now think about this. If they get the lead off hitter
and you know, one of my biggest gripes with this team is aside
from being on third base and shortstop is they don't have a
lead off hitter. And my guy Boonie can tell me
all the time. No, they we do We not you don't
have a lead off hitter in the conventional sense.
The one that I want that that's not the lead off hitter that I
want the Yankees to have. You know, I'm used to watching,
you know, even back in the day, you know, Ricky and and Willie
and then obviously you know, Jeets and Knobby and Soriano,
like I'm going to be a little more than Trent Grisham and I
know he's going to hit home runs.
But if see if it's not one route, it's two if they get the
lead off hitter now you lengthen the line up and the bottom third
becomes less of an issue because now Trent Grisham's going to a
place where he should be, where he should be.
He should be 6 or geez, if Trent Grisham's your 7 hitter, you got
the best 7 hitter in baseball. You really do.
I mean, with an OPS of 811 whatever was a year ago in the
34 home runs, if he if he if he can even replicate that by, you
know, 80 ish percent. Even if he goes 2728 home runs
and has an OPS of 796-A slight drop, a slight diminishment home
run. So they've got 2 avenues or two
lanes as as Aaron likes to say. Haven't heard him say it that
this year though, yet It's coming 2 avenues to improve this
team and get them to a level where I would then expect and I
have not expected them to be a champion and Lord knows how
long. I didn't remember the last year
I went into a season, whether it's on the air or just
internally where I'm like Yankees going to win the World
Series this year. Now I knew what Soto they'd have
a much better chance. I was obviously it was a
different level of optimism, but I wasn't that bold saying, oh,
absolutely a championship team, I'm like they'll be in the mix.
If they get a lead off man, that's one that's one Ave.
Or if they get the third baseman, you still resolve the
bottom third of the order because now you can mix things
around and you get a little more consistency.
That's really the only thing that worries me about the
Yankees. You know, now those are two kind
of big things like if you don't love the lead off man and you
don't love the final three spots of the batting order, you know,
you're basically talking about four slots in a nine man lineup.
But you know, the other areas are so good and the pitching is
so elite and should remain that way that you, you even if they
don't do anything, they're going to win 949596 games.
And I, I, I, I will, I'm going to check myself a little bit
here and keep it real. All offseason, I did not think
that the Yankees would win the division.
Now, I don't want to be that guy, you know, six games and
say, oh, they're going to be the division champion up, They're
going to win 102 games up. I'm giving you possibilities as
to how they can get there. But even if they don't get a
lead off, man, like a true one or upgrade third base.
Can you imagine if they did both, by the way?
Jeez. And that's what I mean when I
say they owe Aaron Judge. Like Derek Jeter would go out
there and you, I remember hearing this, my dad would say
this for some reason. I'm like nothing.
He didn't like Jeter. He always thought Jeter was a
little bit overrated, which might not be the best take that
my dad's ever had. I don't truly disagree in the
sense that like it goes back to the whole a rod Jeter thing.
You know, there's some Yankee fans and it's how I actually
became friends with a rod. It came up on the air one time
when I was still on the fan and, and he heard the segment and
then he reached out to his PR guy and that's how we wound up
having lunch and, and, you know, striking up a relationship,
right. And, you know, I, I remember
saying, and I didn't bring it up.
The colder did I'm like, wait a SEC.
He's like, you know, Jeter was better than a rod.
I'm like, on what planet are you from?
What? Where at what?
You know, he wasn't a better defensive shortstop.
He Jeter certainly didn't have the power in terms of speed when
they were both in their prime. Pretty pretty freaking close in
terms of average. I mean, you know, I mean, Derek
was a very high average hitter, but so was a rod multiple MB
Atlas was just better. Need to convince anybody who's
better. But I say that because think of
all the players. Think about this, this, all the
players that Derek Jeter played with, and my dad's argument was
always, and others have said this too, you know, if Jeter was
on the Pirates or Jeter was on the Reds, you know, does he have
3000 hits? Honestly, he might.
I, I'm not going to say that he wouldn't, but he wouldn't be
viewed as one of the most clutch champions of all time because he
would have been in a position to be there enough if ever, if he
was with the Pirates of the Reds, you know, or the White Sox
or the Morelands. So the point is they got to get
more around Judge and I'm going to keep my foot on the gas.
I promise you Yankee fans all summer for Cashman to make one
kick ass move. Find this year's David Justice.
Find that guy. I don't need him today.
I don't need him tomorrow. I don't need him by the Kentucky
Derby weekend. I don't need him by my birthday
in late June. By 4th of July.
I'm going to need somebody. I'm going to need somebody
because you don't all the players, whether it was a Rod or
Tino or Moe or Pettit or Bernie or you name anybody that that
that that that posada O'Neill. Think about the line that the
Jeter went out there with, right?
Think about the players that he went to battle with every single
night. Think about what Reggie Jackson
that now Reggie had to have those clutch moments and he
obviously stepped up in his and from a power point of view was
like the power version of Jeter in terms of clutchiness, right?
But he had Thurman, he had Nettles, he had Pinella, he had
Willie. He had Roy White early that I
don't know if I said Munson, but if I didn't, my bet had Munson.
Obviously Chantless was a good first baseman.
Think about that, you know, and then even Mattingly who never
won, had Ricky had Winfield had and had Randolph in the lineup.
So just close your eyes and think about all the great
players that Aaron Judge has played with.
Ruth had Gehrig, Gehrig had Ruth right?
DiMaggio had was that was that Tony Lazarie?
You know, obviously Yogi was a was with Mickey and Whitey.
Like think the names that we throw out there that are
associated with the the brilliance, the greatness of the
Yankee brand. Who the hell can you put next to
Judge who? I mean, basically since he came
up, they've been looking for now, I do think that Rice is
going to be the first baseman for a long time, certainly is a
great hitter. And I think he's going to be a
good for solid, not maybe not good solid.
He's not going to bear. He's not going to embarrass your
first base. But you know, when he first came
up, it was Bird. All right, interesting.
Fizzled out out of baseball gone.
Then it was like Luke Voit during COVID who actually LED
baseball in home runs And what's I don't even know what Luke
Voit's doing now. Who is the catcher?
Gary Sanchez, Interesting for a minute.
He's been on four teams. You know, whatever basically
fizzled out. Not the guy.
How many second baseman's has he played with?
How many shortstops has he played?
How many good shortstops? He played with DD for a minute,
right? Who else?
I mean, Caballero's a backup. Both.
He's been a a massive underachiever or disappointment
so far. Think about all the third
baseman that the Yankees have rolled in during Aaron Judge's
time. Think about the center fielders.
Hell, they didn't have a center fielder.
So average Judge had a basically, you know, drag his 6
foot 7 or 6 foot 8, 270 LB frame to center field because the
Yankees couldn't couldn't find one, couldn't develop 1.
You know, all right, Grisham's there now $22 million qualifying
offer. It's probably going to be gone
next year. Whatever.
Dominguez ate it. Jones never going to be it.
You know, Aaron Hicks wasn't it. Think about all the left
fielders they've had now Bellinger's obviously very
solid, but think about the guys that they had Mcclint, Frazier
coming up. You you guys know what I mean.
So there's two things at play here.
Number one, the Yankees are going to be really, really good
this year. And I think even more important
than that is they've got a real chance to be a champion this
year and it's on Cashman to find the guy.
So when they introduce Aaron Judge today and they introduce
all the Yankees and all the pomp and circumstance, I and I kind
of like what open days a little chilly.
I do like that. Like one thing I can't stand and
not that I want it to be like snowing like it did back in 96
when Pettit was pitching against the Royals.
I don't need that, but I can't stand.
And I think you guys would agree with this, Jay, you probably
agree with this as well. Pop in Jay.
Now I don't have season tickets anymore for The Jets, but I did
for a couple of years, as you guys know.
So the home opener, I can't remember one year against the
Bengals and I think Curtis had like a 40 yard touchdown run
where he dove with the left pylon.
I, I, I believe that was the same game since he high scoring
game, right? I was like 90°.
I can't stand going to. That's one thing.
If you go to a preseason game, have a beer, you know you're in
shorts, you're in a flip flops. There's no real urgency hanging
out. You just want to see a little
football for a social point of view.
I can't stand week one in the NFL.
When I'm in a stadium and it's 89°, I can't stand.
Like this, I hate it. Well, I guess 889 is brutal.
Well, that's happened a couple Times Now.
I mean, the weather's changed. Think about this in the
Northeast, like when I was a kid, the, I remember on
Halloween, right? I would, my, my, my mom was such
a warrior. The Italian mom is that, you
know, as, you know, worried about everything.
Oh, you're going to get sick. Oh, it's going to have, you're
going to get kidnapped. Oh, you're going to get hit by a
car, God forbid. Worried about everything right.
So on Halloween, you know you when I was young young you'd
have a cool costume, but she like make me put this fat jacket
on like not like the cool park is like the kids have with the
Jordan logo, whatever, you know, North face, whatever else you
have. No, I mean, these were like, I
felt like a mummy. Like I and I, I remember Jay 11
Halloween and she's very artistic, great drawer, great
painter, very artistic, great with makeup.
I wanted to be Rocky, right. So she made like the black eyes
and everything. And yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I had somehow, like I you back then, you couldn't buy like
a fake championship belt like every kid has now.
So she made me like a, a fake boxing championship belt.
But I had like shorts over grey sweatpants and I had like a
Rocky Balboa shirt. And then I, I think I had a
towel around my neck. But then I had this massive
jacket. Anyway, the point is when I was
a kid, Halloween was freezing. Now, you know, I'm out there
watching most of my my kids, whether it's my daughter playing
soccer, my son playing football, or my son playing, you know,
baseball in the fall as well. I'm out there in shorts, man.
It's hot. So the the weather patterns
changes my point. So yes, you do.
Basically, October to me in the Northeast is more like May, and
really April in a lot of ways is more like October if you really
think about it. No, I mean I, I feel like even
up in Syracuse when I was up there, we were seeing like 75
till mid November. So beautiful up there.
Yeah, well, hit or miss up there.
I remember. You've heard of Lemoyne, right?
Of course, man. Yeah, I figured that.
I remember I was a freshman at Maris and we played Lemoyne and
this when they were a power man. They would have Really.
Oh God, they would have like 4 or five kids drafted every year.
I didn't know that. One was like a good baseball
school like that. Yeah, I think they dropped down
to Division Two for all their sports.
I think 100% the Dolphins, right?
Yeah. Remember Woodridge because the
coaches name was Woodridge and his son Vicky was a second
baseman. Remember, he had a couple of
home runs against us every year. They had a couple of kids
drafted. Yeah.
But I remember, I think I only played them once and it was a
non conference game and it was early as a freshman and it was
like 38 and bluster. Awful baseball weather,
absolutely horrendous baseball weather.
But yeah, I mean, that's what I'm saying about the Yankees.
It looks a little different. It feels a little different.
And there's going to be a window of opportunity for Cashman to
strike to really, truly make it different.
All right, What's Dave say? Dave Moore 425?
Hey, BT you were saying yesterday that you wouldn't
trade Cam or Lombard for schemes or school ball?
I didn't say lamp Lombard. I said I said Cam.
Just to be fair, I never mentioned Lombard.
I threw them out as part of a package.
Maybe that's what you thought. I was just throwing names out.
But I my point was I would I would not.
I would take Cam out of it anyway.
Remember when they wouldn't trade Phil Hughes or Jabba for
Johann Santana? How did their careers go after
that? Understood.
Yes, very true. And Jabba, man, that was a
phenom. Like you had like Linsanity,
then you had Jabba time. That Jabba time was it was real
for a minute, right. And then those stupid midges out
in Cleveland basically ruined everything.
And by the way, that one was on Joe Torre and Tori, I think
eventually took blame for that. Like there's no way you continue
that game. There's no way you continue that
game. I remember I was on a golf trip.
I had a weekend Seaview, I think by Atlantic City, two really
nice golf courses, like an inland course and one on the
water right. And they we had a relationship
this when I was at 10:50 and like me and my boys, like four
of us, like I think it was 4. Frank was there, Dan was there,
Rob was there, Maddie was there, maybe 5 sick, whatever.
And they gave us like this massive sweet.
There was so much fun. And we played golf ball days.
And I remember I'm like, hey, good boy Yankee game.
So they rolled in this massive, this is obviously years ago.
They didn't really have the flat screens like they do now.
They rolled in this massive, massive TV with a massive bucket
of Coors lights and we just sat there after we played and when
you know, we're having a couple beers watching the game.
That was the midges game. So I'll never forget where I was
and I remember screaming at the TV.
Joe pull them off the field. Joe pull them off the field and
and he never did, never did. But the point is this right?
So I did say this yesterday and I won 1000% stand by this.
So Jabba, that was a little Side Story on Jabba.
Jabba look different than Phil Hughes did and I remember I saw
Phil Hughes pitch at Trenton at double AI was so interested and
so intrigued by him that I win and I I very rarely go to minor
league games, even though I I love baseball.
I took it upon myself. I called downtown and I watched
him pitch AA Trenton Thunder. Will they will they the Thunder.
At that point it was definitely AA and they had I think I did
it. Yo, you know what it was?
No, I did a show from there. And if I recollect properly, I
actually think that somehow my station begin 10:50 set it up
with the Modern League affiliate where I was able to, like, call
the game and do a show at the same time.
Yeah, because I remember I was kind of sick.
Yeah. Anyway, Phil Hughes, I was
pumped. And I remember he was throwing a
no hit or hurt his hamstring. Right.
He was. He just never, ever.
He never looked like this. Cam Schlitzler is different now.
I don't have a magic wand. I don't have a crystal ball.
I don't know if camp slit there's going to stay healthy.
Nobody knows, man. Nobody knows about skins, nobody
knows about school. Now the good thing is, and
obviously the shoulder is very different from from the from the
elbow, like rotator elbow. You're going to be back at some
point like Gary Cohen, everybody else right.
But Otani, the thing about camp slit there and Hughes had a good
delivery as well. But he's got a very effortless,
you know, like he really uses his legs to me, which takes away
a lot of the stress of the joints up here, right?
And you know, who's the best of all time at that?
To me, it was Tom Seaver. I don't think anybody used
leverage points and used their entire body the way the Tom
Seaver did. And that's why he was able to
get his 300th win against the Yankees.
I was watching that game. But when he was with the White
Sox, that should have been with the Mets, man Don Baylor.
Jeez, what? What you remember as a kid,
remember sitting there watching on Channel 11 and Don Baylor
flew out to left field at Yankee Stadium and Tom Seaver got #300
Hey, Jared, do me a favor. This.
Is always this is always a little dicey when I asked him to
do this. Here we go.
Do it on a computer, not on your phone.
All right, look up Tom Seaver stats.
Pretty easy request. We we know that Jay can handle
this now. We told him the other day.
And I know, like I know one year was like 297 innings and just I
don't need wins and WHIP and yeah, right.
Just if you can. And what was his first year?
67 something like that, read 67 read in succession innings
pitched, just like boom boom from year to year.
Boom boom boom boom. Just give me like 6 or seven in
a row go. Let's see.
Innings pitched. See.
Nah. Oh God, I got it.
I've got it. I've got it.
OK, 250-1270. Eight that time out, time out.
22nd. All right, you got it.
You got it right. 251 is a rookie.
Think about what we do with these pitchers now.
Think about even from a Mets point of view, like, hey, you
know, Clay Holmes hasn't started in six years.
Couple of starts with the Pirates, you got and I get it, I
get it. It's the new way of baseball.
We've got to incrementally, you know, build out 20 or 30
innings. Like there's a thought, you
don't want to have somebody exceed a, a threshold of, you
know, 40 innings per year. So like, if you going from AA
and you throw, I don't know, 94 innings, you're not going to go
190 the next year. You're not going to go below by
the stop sign. It's just little, you know,
little checkpoints increments. All right, so and this guy
throws 251 his first year. Go ahead, 270. 8. 278 I know
there's a 290 somewhere in there.
Cut 278. 290 is in his fourth season in 19701969's 273 that's
the championship year. Then 286, 260-2290 again
23628271I mean it's 61 I. Mean, it's just unreal.
Think about that and one of the reasons why.
And there's other guys too, maybe not quite like Seaver.
He may have been the greatest he, but first of all, he might
be the greatest right-handed pitcher of all time.
Like I only saw old Seaver like with the White Sox with his
300th win and when he came back to the Mets in 83.
I do remember watching that opening day on Channel 9.
But he might be the greatest workhorse of all time and he
really might be the greatest right-handed pitcher of all
time. Pedro's there.
You know, some people say maybe Bob Gibson.
It's a short list. Either way, you're not going
that. Same with Clemens.
Clemens was a guy who had thick legs, like massive tree trunk
thighs and really had great leverage and really used his
legs to absorb the taxing on his on his upper joints.
And Siever like that's why Tom Siever's that would be his left
knee. His left knee always had dirt on
it because he would his left knee would actually scrape
against the ground. That's how low he would get.
So Camp Schlepler. I mean, nobody does that quite
like that, but I see Cam Schlittler and I see a guy who
the ball flies out of his hand without seemingly, seemingly
without even going Max exertion. He's added another pitch.
He's 6/6 to the balls on you faster because the release
points out more because he's bigger and his levers are longer
and he knows how to command them.
And I just think that he's untouchable.
Like for me, he would be untouchable now.
School ball obviously would be a rental.
There's no way in hell I would do that.
But I also said yesterday and I'm I'm not changing my I will
unless she gets rocked that he has a horrendous year, then I'll
say what was wrong and I'm an idiot, right?
He's not going to get rocked and he's not going to have an awful
year. He's going to be an All Star and
he's going to have an awesome year, right, But I just hope he
just hope he stays healthy. But I think that somebody like
Cam Schlittler, even with Skeens, who has a lot of years
of controllability, even if you can make a trade with the, you
know, with the pretense we're going to sign the extension,
which is never going to happen because these guys going to
maximize their their free agent dollar, obviously.
And they should you want you want to flex there because when
you get there, you really only get there once where you signed
that massive deal. Although it's different now with
the opt out, you get back on the market.
We all know it's changed a little bit.
Even Soto could opt out, but the Mets can prevent them from
leaving, right Bellinger, etcetera, Tucker, like these
deals at Bichette. So the reason why I wouldn't do
that even then is because let's say it was literally it was, you
know, I don't know if they say if they love Jones or Dominguez
Lombard and Schlittler at another low level highly rated
Yankee prospect for skins and skiing signs that tend to deal
with the Yankees. Well, the way the Yankees now
operate, it's pretty clear that it's not win at all costs, which
stinks because it used to be. And that's one thing that drives
me absolutely nuts. And that's the thing.
Not that house cheap, but there is a there's been a
recalibration all right, and how the Yankees pursue championships
and it's obvious and it's been going on for a long time right.
So if they were to get that Skeens comes with a 10 year,
nine year deal and you get rid of Cam Schlittler.
Well, OK, school right now Skeens is better because he's
got more of a body of work. I don't think he's necessarily
got better stuff. I don't know about that.
But he's a more accomplished pitcher because he's been on the
in the show longer. But the money that he would get
now you're you're taking away more money to spread around the
team, which is desperately going to need it.
And I'll get back to that in a minute.
And the other thing that I said yesterday, like, if you really
think about it, do you think that camp slip now, if you don't
think this this would change how you would do business with the
Pirates, right? I don't think that I should say,
I think, and this is conservative, this is very low
estimate. I think that Cam Schlittler is
at least amenably very conservative, at least 85% of
Skeens. So if a guy's 85% of maybe the
best pitcher in baseball along with school ball, why would I
flip that now take on 6 or $700 million when the one guy who's
probably 12/15/18 percent who knows that I think that that
gaps going to narrow myself, I do, who's making $800,000?
Why would I do that? That's not good business.
Now one SEC, Jay, if you're sitting here telling me, well,
we're going to get back to the old days and hell yeah, we're
going to trade for schemes and we're going to keep Schlittler
or we're going to sign schemes, whatever it is right or or or
schoolable. And we're going to have
schoolable making a gazillion dollars and Max Freed making a
gazillion dollars and Gerard Cole couple more years making
big money and rolled on his contracts.
Not up yet. Like this is an arrow judge
making good money, although he's woefully underpaid at this
point. It's not going it's it's not
going to be economically feasible from their new
blueprint of doing business. Yankees won't do it.
If they would do it, then I would be, we wouldn't be saying
this because I'd say, all right, school becomes a free agent.
Yanks will get them like the Yankees used to get everybody.
But that doesn't happen anymore because the Yankees don't go.
They go to the one yard line. They go to, they go inside the
five. They have a great tribe.
Yeah, 9800 million, whatever the offer was for for Juan Soto,
they did have the highest AAV to be fair for Yamamoto.
But you know, moving across field, boom, defense can't stop
you inside the 40, inside the 30, inside the 20 red zone, you
know, short red inside the 10 at the seven Yanks get into the
five yard line with some of these big, big, big deals
recently. This is irrefutable.
The evidence is there. They stall out and they wind up
picking a field goal instead of punching in for six.
That's the difference. You know what I mean Who the
hell was texting me? Leave me alone.
Let's see here. Oh man.
I shot you. I got to shut that off, so not a
lot to add to that. J Rod, I see I.
Mean listen, I I got exactly, I mean exactly what you were
saying, exactly what you were saying.
Let's understood. Little is that guy.
Oh, he's tremendous, dude. He is just absolutely filthy.
Marciano 1320 says Quan would be perfect on this Yankees team as
a lead off man. Yeah, I won't give credit.
Sal brought that up. Sal brought that up about a year
ago where you know, we're talking about the Yankees lineup
basically, you know, no lead off hitter, not enough protection
around Aaron Judge is before Schlittler pop and all the other
stuff right, and we both didn't like their lineup and he brought
up quantum like it's a really good idea.
So let's just mess around. I'm going to go 12345678.
I'm going to go 9. Let's say Quan.
All right, see the here's here's the problem, though, because now
you it's not a problem that Bellinger's back, but with
Grisham here. All right, I'll figure this out
though. Quan goal glove left fielder
Batten 1. Now you could go to thinking
lefty righty switch You can go to.
I guess you keep judge too. I wouldn't, but they will judge
and right too. Now you go back to the lefties
here. Now you go.
I would go Ben Rice myself, although Bellinger can run all
right. You want to keep Belding the
three hole. Let's go there and I'm going to
put Bellinger in center field. Then you got Stanton, who looks
physically viable so far. Then you got Rice, right.
Then you get into the, you know, the Grishams and you start
filling out the roster. I mean, could you imagine with
this pitching staff how many runs Quan would scratch out and,
and how many, you know, games the Yankees could and would win
without needing a long ball? And not that Quan can't hit a
couple, but Quan, Judge, Belly, all three can hit.
All three are on base. All three could run, you know,
so you know, that was that was a good call by Sal.
That was a while ago. Hulk Hogan, brother 25.
Yep, it is a no rules Friday on the show.
Wow, this is awesome. All right about to be a father
for the first time. That is tremendous.
God bless you, man, God bless you.
You seem like a great father. I try to be, you know, I I
certainly I I give it everything I have, but everything I have I
try. I've definitely made mistakes.
There's no question, but I've tried.
Any advice on raising a son? Love the show, man.
So you know, you're having a boy.
I, I'd like to know when, when is when is your son?
Like what's the due date? Right?
Because the first thing I would want you to do, and I, this came
up about a month or so ago. Paint the room, paint the room.
You know, I don't know what teams you root for, but I'm sure
you're going to pass those on to your kids, right?
And certainly to your son to start.
So I painted my son's room Yankee blue.
This is when we were still in a condo, you know, Yankee theme
and and I like the the pride and I'm not a really good painter.
I figured it out. I remember I was playing my rock
music like 1043, getting some stone.
He said I'd do in August, all right.
Plenty of time to do this, right?
Give yourself a couple of beers, whatever you drink.
And not, not to sit there and get wasted, but maybe pour a
little Scotch, a little celebrate if you, if you're a
cigar guy, whatever, whatever your little vice is to just
enjoy the moment like a celebration.
Do it, pump the music, do it when your wife is out right?
Have the place to yourself and start with that.
That's the first thing you know. The other thing is, you know,
when you talk about rays in the sun and it, it's, I mean, it's
just, it's hard, it's hard to generalize because there are
just so many different personalities that are born like
my, my daughter and my son are, are such different
personalities, right? But since you asked me about a
son, I, I remember and I'm not even going to make it about
sports, although I will say this, start early.
And I, I feel like, you know, that like if you're a big sports
fan watching this show, get the ball in his hands.
You know what, I'm going to tell you a little something about
sports. One thing that I did early, like
I would take tennis balls and I would, I would, you know, first,
you know, I'm talking about what he's like one years old, like
he's just laying on the on the carpet like a BLOB, right?
Give him a little bounce. And then I would start spinning
the ball right, easy. I'm not throwing peas at him.
But then all of a sudden you start to see their eyes start to
follow the ball and like the hands and the eyes become
connected. Now I I don't know.
Are you born with hand eye? I don't know the answer to that.
I couldn't run for shit, but I had really good hand eye
coordination. I don't know, did I get that
from my dad? My dad could run.
He's got good hand eyes. So probably you probably are
born with it, dude. I don't I don't know, but you
could definitely do those little things right just to get that
going a little bit. The first thing aside from
sports that and he does it. And if I had to remind him, I I
get it, but I don't have to get annoyed.
I'll just remind him, but I really don't have to remind him
This I from day one. Go hold the door for your mom.
Go hold the door for your daughter.
Go hold, hold it for grandma, hold it for Grammy.
Hey, we're walking into a diner because we, we, I'm a big diner
guy, even though a diner is a complete RIP off at this point.
Like when I used to go to the diner and I go all the time.
I've said this with my dad after like CYO games and we'd read the
papers and we'd be there for an hour, right?
We just, we basically do a radio show.
That's why I've always said my dad is my first radio partner.
I just didn't know it because then we would go in the car and
we would just talk sports, you know, anything to avoid talking
school from my point of view. But we do that all the time.
And when we would go to the diner, if this is, you know,
this is mid 80s, late 80s in Brooklyn, they would bring a
massive tray of Pickles and bread and coleslaw.
Now you got to ask for it. They give you these little tiny
slices. I'm like, I have a little bit
more chore, but the diner I go through is great.
Like, but they got to pay for it.
Like they know as well by now I'm like, you know, the deal,
put it on the tab, whatever. I want some Pickles, you know,
but a lot of times we're going to the diner like after a game,
right? And maybe time to kill between
another game or before another game.
And you know, if I see like an elderly couple or, you know,
not, not for a grown man. Although if you're in front of
him, hold the door for him, you know, he'll run up that little
ramp. You know, he when he was little,
he'd run up there like, you know, like a little 345 year
old. Now he that has a 11 year old
athletic jog and he, he knows to do it, you know, and I think
it's got to start with manners. And that's even that's a battle,
you know, with certain things like, you know, put the napkin
on your lap. Like you just got to teach him
this stuff, You know, don't eat with your hands, don't eat with
your mouth open. You know, I, I, that's really
the best advice I could give you.
I don't know his personality. I don't know your level of
education. I don't know your, your depth of
sports. Did you play that you and I
don't need to know now. I think you cater it to your
obviously what you know best and and I would even say cater it to
cater to what? Here's some some other advice.
Cater to what are your weaknesses.
All right, and I'm going to I'm going to give you an example.
This is personal, but I'll give you an example.
So he can you ask me about my son.
I could go on and on about my daughter as well.
My God, she's the best, but he asked me about about a son and
he sometimes it's too much. He he competes like a lunatic
like and he's now dealing, which I love.
I could I'd rather pull you back then have to wind you up every
day of the week. No doubt his motor is is there
and he's a really good teammate, but he's hard on himself.
And I noticed maybe because you know, daddy's got a public
persona. I hate saying that, but you
don't see daddy on TV now. You see him on YouTube, on the
radio, St. John's games.
Daddy happens to know some people who are I hate the word
famous. My daughter always says, you
know, like to your daddy, you're fame.
No, I'm not famous. I can't stand the word famous.
I have a public job, right? And you know, you don't know in
the mind of a of a young at that point, like 8-9.
So he's 11. I probably started this more
when he was nine. You don't know how they're
viewing you in terms of, you know, you like to think every
kid looks at their mom and dad is their hero.
And I think in in in his mind particularly, I think that he
thought that I was a whole hell of a lot better at baseball than
I actually was. You know, you see a picture of I
got some stuff in the office, most of the kids, but got a
couple of things of, you know, me playing in college and he
sees that and he's like, man, Daddy was daddy was amazing.
So what I started to do was, and I wasn't, I wish I started to
almost almost accentuate some of my failures rather than saying,
oh man, this time in high school or you know, Daddy played the
All Star game at Yankee Stadium for high school, which he knows.
But rather than talk about that stuff, Daddy just Daddy didn't
get it done in college. Daddy started as the three
hitter and Daddy just didn't produce and Daddy was hurt and
it crushed Daddy. So anything that you're going
through, I get it. Like I would say, if you can
start with a database as not perfect and I'm still learning,
we all are. If you could start with a
database of manners, Obviously, if, if if you're a person of
faith, which we are, it's very important and not everybody is.
And I get that. I think you start there, you
start there, the athletic stuff, take care of it, but start early
with playing sports, you know, And the other thing too, I will
say this, like I noticed a big dip, this just about sports, you
know, actually like playing. I, I noticed the kids, the kids
who I coach and the kids that I see play, the kids who sit there
and watch games with their, with their dad, their mom, their
uncle, the grandfather, the kids who watch games, know the game
better. Their IQ is just undeniably
better. So if you're a big baseball guy,
you know, and he's like, I'm talking about even when he's
like 3-4 years old, I would say yeah, but you want to keep it
fun, I would say, all right, you know, hey, 2O, what do you think
this pitch is going to? And then you change your tone as
they get older. Hey, what do you think this
pitch is going to throw? You think he's going to throw a
fastball or And wasn't always right early on, obviously.
But then as we talked more and more and more now, and now it's
like, you know, I'm sitting there with my 11 year olds.
We going low outside, we going up.
And what do you think? What would you do here?
You know, and you could do that stuff or, you know, St.
John's is up by X amount of points with 37 seconds to go or
they're down three. You know, hey, you don't have to
go for three here, right? Would you go for three or go for
a quick two? If they give it to you, hey,
it's a lot of time left. And if you get the wrong answer,
and in my mind, the right answer would be go for the quick two,
foul, extend the game, whatever, unless you have a great shooter
and he's wide open. You explain that and, and, and
their ability to decipher #1 what they're watching.
And then if they really do become athletes and they love it
and they've got a little bit of talent, whatever, and they stick
with it, you're going to see that translate on the field.
But I that that's my best advice And, and the other obvious piece
of advice is enjoy it, man, because it goes so freaking
fast. Matter of fact, it's funny.
I'll show you this here. This is funny, man.
One of the things about Facebook, I love it, but it's
also, I don't know if the pressing is the right word, but
I'm aware of it, right. So, you know, you see these
Facebook memories and they pop up and one of one popped up with
my daughter yesterday and it it actually happens to be my all
time favorite picture of her. And there's a million of them,
right? And this is she is now, I don't
know if you can really see it with the light, right?
Right. That was when she came to my
office and mommy had her all dressed up for school.
She's probably about 3, right? And that, and then, and I love
it and it warms my heart. And I look at it, you know, and
I think what I think, but then you're like, man, time's flying.
Like, you know, that's the other thing.
Like just try to impress upon you.
There's nothing I can say. Like, you know how many times I
heard, Hey, it goes fast, enjoy it.
And, and, and I really try to, but then life gets busy and I
do, and so does my wife. The time gets busy.
And as they get older, it's like you're coming home from school.
Got to get the homework done, got to get to practice, got to
suck down dinner, got to read, you know, they got to brush your
teeth, got to shower, got to say your prayers, got to get ready.
Like, oh, it's this day at school.
Got to have this outfit out. The busyness and the noise
almost doesn't allow you to enjoy it every single second.
It sounds great when you tweet it or you just put it out on
Facebook and or when I tell you enjoy every moment, but it's
very hard to do that. And then this one popped up of
him yesterday. This is when he had to be.
I think he was two or three, right?
You're going to love this chase. So this is like two or three
years old, right? And last night we're playing
spring basketball for the first time.
And, you know, we usually, we always played during the winter,
but he started taking more seriously.
So I'm like, all right, we can juggle with baseball.
And then this is last night. Look at the difference.
He's wearing the wet. Look at the difference now.
Yeah, we, we show up to play a I mean, I don't know why he's on
the inside position against that monster, but they he's in the
5th grade and, and his travel team, they put together a spring
team and he's like, yeah, one player.
I want to get some reps I'm absolutely let's feed it, man,
let's play. So they had their first game
land and the coach is great. He knows a lot of the boys play
baseball, lacrosse. So there's very few practices.
If you can't make it all good, you're not going to get
penalized. And he's trying.
He tries to coordinate the games when most of the boys are free.
So last night we only had five kids because kids are a couple
of our vacation for the holiday and then one one of the kids is
sick anyway, it's a so not only do we only have five guys or
five, five fifth graders, we go, we're playing a 6th grade team
and look at this. I mean, that dude was huge.
He's taller than me. Probably he.
He was big and they were good, very skilled, very big and we
were winning. I don't coach so I say we, but
they were winning at the half, right?
And then and, and it was like, Nah, we were up by about 6:00 or
seven, really playing tough, really playing well.
And then they dropped the full court press on us and they
started banging some threes. They could.
They were a really good team and we lost by about 8:00 or 9:00.
So proud of him though. And that's that.
That's one thing coach goes, we had to the game, He goes, we got
to work on a full court press. That's not because they don't,
because you don't really see that.
Like there's some rules which I agree with.
I think 6th grade obviously is when you can really start
pressing full court. Like in fifth grade, you can do
it within a minute if you're like, you know, rec and travel.
But think about this. If you have a team and all they
do is press you and you've got a superior group of athletes, the
other teams never going to learn how to get the ball up and
initiate the hamper court office.
So it's a good rule. But in this league, which which
is a pretty decent league, there's no rule like that.
So they just started. Picking them up and press.
Battle to get the ball in bounds dude.
So my point is, time goes fast. Enjoy it and God bless.
That's great. That's great.
What else do I have here, Jay? Oh, you know what, Give me some
Yankee things up there too. And I want to get into that as
well. How we do it on the EA Sports
with the college football. Pretty good.
This is what I'll say. There's a lot of confusion for
something that I think is pretty blatantly straightforward.
Well, this is all. This is all love to the
Unleashed family. Of course it is legit.
You listen, listen. Of course it's love.
But if they're not, if they're not paying attention and
following directions, well, you got to you got to school them.
Go ahead, Jay. No, what I gotta say is, all
right, it's not a contest. So you're not going against each
other for this. This is a giveaway.
This is like Santa or the Easter Bunny coming around giving
doling out the toys. Doling out for you?
Got one for you? All you've got to do legit.
You don't even have to say anything else.
Just e-mail and console. That's it. e-mail and console.
Meaning in the, in the stream, in the chat, in the chat.
Give me e-mail and console and I got you.
That's it. You get it.
It's not like, well, go ahead. We're dishing them out.
We're dishing them out throughout this and it's been,
it's been a constant communication the entire episode
if you look at the chat. Oh my God.
Well, that would happen a lot in in radio too.
Like when you do a giveaway, you do a contest.
Like say, there's been so many contests, I can't even think of
one right now. But like contest X, you start
the show and you're like, hey, by the way, coming up later, you
know when when we give you guys the cue, we're going to give you
Yankee the chance to win Yankee tickets or met tickets or nick
tickets or whatever it might be. And right away the prize line
starts starts ringing right away.
No, I didn't say now we said later.
It is funny what they hear. So guys, I mean plain English
put in the in the stream here, put your e-mail, let us know
what console you use. And J and and literally J Rod is
going to send you a free code for college football.
I mean, jeez, listen, not only do I take a lot of pride in the
unleashed family being passionate and being loyal, you
know, I'd like to think we're a fairly intellectual group here.
I mean, so stop acting like knucklehead caveman kind of
listen to directions, will you? Guys.
Not that hard man. Alright, this one's from our
expected dad there. I appreciate it more than you
know. BT last thing is it cruel to
make of a Jets fan like his father?
You the man 100%. He's a Jets fan.
And the discussion and the discussion, I don't want to hear
about that. That is a non discussion point.
The only way, the only way it is a discussion point is if you are
married to somebody who is a devout, no devout fan of another
team. All right, then you got to
figure it out amongst yourselves.
And my wife's a Texas girl, massive Cowboys fan, loves him,
always has so. And she wants The Jets to do
well. And they usually play at
different times because the Cowboys are usually on national
TV and we watch him as a family. And I want the Cowboys to win.
I'm not dying and living and dying with the Cowboys.
I can do The Jets. And she's not living and dying
with The Jets like she does Dallas.
But you know, we we make it a family thing.
She'll make tacos, whatever. So I would say that again, you
got to figure that out amongst yourselves.
What we did was, and we have a picture of this where maybe I
think it was Ezekiel Elliott. We had these, you know, because
when, when, when the baby was born, we got a bunch of little
jerseys and we put both of the jerseys on the floor. 1 was Zeke
Cowboys blue and one was Eric Decker.
Eric Decker, wide receiver, formerly the Broncos, but also
The Jets, right? And we put like, all right, Nah,
unless he's gonna be Jets fan no matter what.
But I'm like, God, let this just figure, let, let, let, let you
know. Let's, let's play the game.
Let's go along with the charade here.
And he's crawling in these little fat, chubby legs.
Probably it may have been 8-9 months here.
It was a baby. And he goes, well, there was a
moment of pause, actually moment of pause.
Then he goes to The Jets 1 and then it was a wrap.
It was official. Would have been a Jets fan
anyway. But so again, play the game.
I think that and she happens to be a Yankees fan as well, so
that's easy. That was never an issue with
that. And she's not a big bass boy.
Oh, she does like The Mavericks a little bit.
And because she used to say she, she got to know Rick Carlisle
pretty well because when he was the head coach, she was selling
for ESPN out there anyway. So she wanted to see them do
well for business. And she's from Dallas and, and
it's all good. But I would say this, I I've
heard that a lot and I've been asked that a lot.
Like, dude, you know, and some of it's just like a little
hyperbole, like am I gonna really, you know, child like you
hear child abuse, like, you know, I hate to marginalized
child abuse. God, but you hear that, you
know, child abuse, making my son a Jets fan or a Browns fan or,
you know, before Cohen came here, a Mets fan, whatever it
might be, you know, the teams that, you know, you really don't
want to be a fan of that. You are.
And I, I look at it this way, think about, and this even
applies to those of you who are died in the Wolf fan, say of The
Jets, because that, that came up and like, hey, should I tap out?
Like, I don't know how anybody could tap out unless you were
just 1/2 assed Jets fan to begin with.
Like if you're a real Jets fan, I know it's misery.
If you're a real Browns fan, it's miserable.
If you're a Cardinals fan, it is miserable.
Not that there's a ton of Marlins fans out there, but if
you're a Marlins fan, man, it's bleak right now being a Twins
fan or being a White Sox fan. Brutal, man, even being a
Dolphins fan. Think about their, you know,
their rode the last 30 years, whatever it's been, you know,
post, post Danny Marino. So there's a lot of teams like
that all those years being a Knicks fan.
Now imagine if you would have no, they're not going to win the
championship this year, but imagine tapping out and saying,
you know what? I can't stomach it anymore.
I'm going to root for the Heat because, you know, LeBron went
there or the Cavs because I like LeBron or and, and now, even
though they won't win it this year.
But imagine when the Knicks do win and you're sitting there and
you're watching the NBA Finals and you kind of tapped out and
there's just like, how are you going to react?
So imagine that. Imagine.
And I can't tell you what year it's going to be.
I can't even promise you that it's ever going to happen.
But if and when it does happen, you've got to be prepared for
that moment because the amount of internal regret that you
would have as a sports fan would be incalculable.
It really would be, imagine sitting on the couch, you know,
whether he's 8 or 18 or, you know, 23 and he's back home or
or 20 and he's back home from college or she's back home from
college or, I don't know, 27 years old and he's not married
yet, but he's got an apartment in the city or wherever he's
living right on Wall Street, and he comes home for the weekend.
Get some of mom's cooking. Jets are played a big game and
you tapped out and you or you let him tap out or you didn't
make him a Jets fan. And he's a fan of, I don't know,
the Chiefs because when he's four years old in a couple of
years, like he still loves Mahomes or he likes Mahomes.
And then when he comes home when he's 27, The Jets are in the AFC
championship game. Where's that bond?
Like where where is that connection?
You know, I remember this year he actually said to me, he goes,
this is week one against the Steelers.
I don't blame him because at least I got to see Rex.
He hadn't even seen anything like that.
He has seen Gase and he has seen ugly Salva stuff and he saw
whatever the hell you want to call last year, you know, with
Aaron Glenn, that circus. So he goes, he goes that he
goes, he's like, he didn't really mean it because he's got
good spirit. He's like, can we just root for
a different team? And I was sitting here and he
was sitting there and I looked at him.
I said, are you nuts? I said, come on, man.
As you know, that's not how we're built.
And I feel literally, if, if it wasn't the, I'm not just making
this up, it wasn't if it wasn't the next play, it was 2 plays
after that. Justin Fields threw that sick
touchdown, I don't know, 40 yards, whatever.
It was like the only good throw we had all year.
And I'm like, you see, that's why we're going to stick with
The Jets because they lose the game.
And then, yeah, they come back and they block a punt against
the Bucks. They lose the game, you know,
looking good against Miami and fumble at the one, lose the
game, get squashed by the Bills, get squashed by the Cowboys,
give up the most points in NFL history in December.
Maybe I should have listened to him.
All right, what does this say here?
Happy hoping. Hoping Warren keeps up the
trend. The good start.
Yeah. I like Will Warren.
I mean, listen, it's not like he went, he put he go 4 2/3.
Let's not go nuts here. Will Warren's got good stuff.
I think he's got good swing and miss stuff.
I think he's going to be a pretty good strikeout guy.
And, you know, if he can incrementally improve, which
most young players do, I think that Will Warren could be a back
of the rotation, really solid back of the rotation starter for
a long time. You know, I really do.
Charlie. F6675 school's got a year left
and Boris will have them. Absolutely can hit free agency
to maximize that money that he can get.
No way you give up a probable future ace and Schlittler for a
year of school. But yeah, no, that's obvious.
Charlie. I appreciate that.
But I've also taken a step further.
Even if I knew that they were getting schooled with an
extension, which Boris will not let that happen.
So you're right there. But I'm just saying, just to
prove to you, to communicate to you how much I believe in Cam
and all the monetary factors, which also matters when trying
to, you know, project what the Yanks will be, their payroll and
how aggressive they'll be and how much wiggle room they'll
have to eventually fill out some of these other positions here
because they don't develop position players are gonna have
to buy some because McMahon ain't going to be around a long
time, probably gonna have a new shortstop.
They're not going to extend jazz Chism, trust me.
You know, Grisham's here one year, probably gone, all right,
Belly's here a couple of years. Judge is getting old.
I do think Ben Rice will be the first baseman for a long time.
And I don't know about Austin Wells and Stanton's, you know,
he's having a great start, but he's getting older.
So, you know, with if there's $700 million in school and you
get rid of Schlittler, all right, great.
You're going to have a really good staff because you're not
Freed and Warren and and Camp and and Caloric Schmidt.
But who's playing the field? What's the batting order look
like as judge ages out? You know, will you come out with
another list soon like you did with the old time Yankee lineup?
Yes, actually what I did and I haven't divulged it yet.
I've actually got it. I'm I'm I'm looking at it on my
desktop here. So for those of you who missed
it, and if you new to the channel, I'm sure you did go
back search the channel. I did a video.
It's only about what? What, Jay?
About 17 or 18 minutes in length, right?
Something like that. Which one?
The old time Yankee lot of that I did.
Yeah, yeah. Shorter.
It's not like a long 2 hour show.
Little quick pop, right? So I did my old time Yankee
lineup from post 1980, all the players I saw.
And I also did one for the New York Mets post 1980, all the
players I saw. Now I also have another one
where I fused the Yankee names and the Met names and I put
together my old time New York baseball lineup post 80
encompassing Yankees and Mets. So I did that.
I haven't. I haven't.
I haven't done, I've got the graphic, I've got all the stats.
I haven't actually done the video.
I'm going to do that fairly soon.
And I also did the my old time Big East team.
So there's some other content by the way.
And also if you missed the chat with Stephen A, which was
phenomenal. Hey, we made some national news
out of that. Did you see?
Yeah, the Bear Media. Yeah, and also awful announcing
wrote about it. Let's go.
Yeah, he was phenomenal, man. Check it out.
I know it was a couple of days ago.
Many of you have already seen it.
If you have not, make sure you go check it out like it's up and
all that other stuff. All right, now, I don't want to
make a big deal out of this. He's getting a little bit of
heat. Nothing where he's going to get
in trouble, nor should he. But because Gary Cohen really
need to trash the city of Saint Louis.
I, I don't know what that accomplishes now.
Todd Zeal was in the booth and I think Keith's back is jacked up
right. And they had a shot of downtown
Saint Louis. I've been to Saint Louis for a
couple of Final Fours, I think. I think the first one was in
2004. And then Tiki and I, when we
were doing the national show, Saint Louis was, was one of our
many affiliates. We had about 200 affiliates and
Saint Louis was one of them. And we did a live show out in
Saint Louis. I've been to Saint Louis a
couple times, right? I also was in the state of
Missouri my junior year of high school during that summer,
playing on a, on a, on a club team managed by Ron Hunt, the
former Met and Expo. So I was out in Missouri the
entire summer and we went to a couple of Cardinals games.
Anyway, I got love for say, I've got love for every American
city, right? And as we've seen, whether it's
Oakland, there's been a revitalization in Detroit, which
is great, but Detroit, elements of Baltimore, you know, DC's got
some rundown areas. I mean, it's, it's, it's tough.
I mean, not every, not every cities and states flourish.
I'm not turning this politically or political.
I'm just telling you it is what it is.
I always like, I'm never going to take a shot of the city.
And I don't even think that Gary was trying to do that.
I, I don't, but he's here's the quote.
So they show the, the image and it's downtown Saint Louis.
I don't know if it was the arch, which, which is pretty cool when
you stand under it, which, which I did.
I mean, if you go to Saint Louis, you don't go see the
arts. I don't know where you're going
to see. I mean, I don't really know,
don't know what's there at that point, you know, but it's, it's
in a rough spot. All right, The Cardinals aren't
good. Their attendance is very down
last couple of years. That used to be a place where
synonymous with undeniable, you know, fan connection.
Now, Cardinals were usually good, but even when they weren't
like that place was popping like a lot of people over the like
most of my lifetime, I've actually heard Cardinals fans,
the best fans in baseball. I've heard that a lot that has
changed. Not that the die hard Cardinal
fans aren't still rooting for them or still going, but the
numbers have diminished and a lot of people have left the city
independent of actually going to games, right.
So they show the shot. Not a lot of people walk in the
streets. And here's the quote from Gary
Cohn quote. There's never anybody walking
around downtown Saint Louis. Remember the old neutron bomb
that wouldn't knock down buildings, but would just
eliminate all the people. It's like one of those hit Saint
Louis. That's just, that's just a bad
reference right there. A bomb reference.
I, I get the point, but Gary's a really smart guy.
And because of his intelligence, the neutron bomb and and knowing
how it didn't knock down the buildings, which is true, it
only took down took out the people.
He knows that. And there's a lot of historical
polls that Garrett can reach for, But you don't do it there,
especially when we're when we're, you know, bombing Iran.
I just it's not. I would hope that he would want
a Mulligan and though he shouldn't get in trouble.
And Gary said Gary has said some things on the air over the
years. He's he's gotten political,
which I don't appreciate. I don't think there's a need for
it, even if you believe what you would.
And I, I'm sure he does. But when you alienate, I mean,
it's one thing. I don't even do it on this show.
And it's my show, all right. But if you're a broadcaster,
like if you're Michael Kay doing the Yankees or you're Gary doing
the Mets or you're Mike Breen doing the Knicks, why in the
world would you ever put out anything espousing something
negative that, you know, if it's not 50%, it's 46 percent, 44
percent, 49 percent, 52% of your audience, like, why would you do
that? And that wasn't yesterday.
But Gary has done this a couple of times and I just, I don't
think he needs to do it. You know, Saint Louis is is
really hurting. And by the way, you know, maybe
Gary wouldn't be offended, But if I was a Mets fan, I would get
a little territorial, like I would perk up.
You know how easy it is. Now, I know they're building up
the area around around City Field and I love City Field, but
the area, I mean, if you're looking for rims, if you're
looking for stolen rims, you're looking for something for the
car. I mean, you got a million chop
shops. I mean, you think it's
aesthetically pretty around City Field.
It's an absolute shit hole and it's been that way for a long
time, you know, So I, I mean, Gary, you're not doing games in,
in San Francisco along the Embarcadero, you know, with,
with views of Mccovey's Cove and the Bay Bridge and the Golden
Gate Bridge and Alcatraz and Sonoma and all these beautiful
vineyards and golf courses that you're doing games in Queens.
I got love for Queens. Don't take that the wrong way,
but just kind of look around your own stadium.
It's changing now, didn't I? Didn't I don't know why he would
say that. You know, if it was like a joke.
No, that is it's pretty messed up.
I didn't. Or at least it comes off as very
like guy speaking from his towers.
A little bit little bit little insensitive, little dismissive.
Yep, Yep, Yep. Think about this.
I was doing some research, so in the early and this, this has
happened to a lot of American cities.
That's why I said this like, I love American history.
I'm not going to bombard you guys with it, but I love it.
And having lived in San Francisco for the two years that
we did, I spent a lot of time in Oakland because the Warriors
were still playing at Oracle Arena, which was right next to
the Coliseum. And, you know, we'd go to some
A's games, went to basically a lot of Raider games as well.
So I, I got to know the Bay Area a little bit.
And parts of it, you know, are beautiful, like when I went out
to Cal Berkeley and incredible like Walnut Creek, incredibly
affluent, totally different climate than San Francisco with
the marine layer generally 10 to 12° warmer, sunnier.
Like I, I played some beautiful, beautiful golf courses.
Of course, I played like shit like I do everywhere, but I
played some gorgeous golf. The one was in San Jose, I think
it was San Jose, Wendy Wente Vineyards.
And it was, it was a golf course that was built and woven within
a vineyard. I think I mentioned this to you.
So like when you hit an errand shot guilty.
You know, if it was incredibly errant guilty, you would go and
find if it was still findable. And then if not, I'd just throw
it down. Maybe I'd take a penalty shot,
maybe I don't whatever. I'm not playing for money As for
sure moving here. Have some fun.
But like you would a couple times I would and I wouldn't go
in the vineyard 'cause I didn't, I don't want to step on the
grapes or anything. But there were like bowls that
were like, you know, you got the fairway, you got, you got the
first cut, then you got, you know, then you got the rough,
then you got pretty much out of play.
And if it was like on the fringe, like I was literally
picking golf balls mine or if I found some because I lost a lot
and I always do. If I find the ball, I'm keeping
it right next to right, right within a vineyard.
So absolutely gorgeous dude. Went through a couple of the San
Jose Shark games. But the, but the point of that
is, is that if you know, the history of, of Oakland and not
just losing teams, but at one point Oakland, like Detroit was
a thriving American city. Like from an industrial point of
view. And, and, and, and, and
different things impacted both areas.
Like Detroit was more about the riots, you know, in the late
60s, an incredible amount of racial tension, just horrible
stuff, man. That really drove a lot of
people the way and, and they've recovered a little bit.
Obviously the automobile industry is, is, is different
now, but not to go into some massive commentary.
The point is, I, I don't, I don't really feel the need to,
to say that. And you know, I don't know, it's
just, it's not not fireable. I'm not, I'm not looking to
start trouble. I don't know Gary incredibly
well. Every time I see him, Saint John
Seton Hall always say hi. Quite frankly, doesn't seem
incredibly interested to have a long conversation.
He doesn't, you know, he's not that.
He's just not, you know, he's just not that kind of guy to me.
I'm sure maybe his inner circle, I don't know, Maybe I'm not as
smart as him. Maybe he can go to.
I'm not sure what Gary thinks about me.
I really don't care. But I've got respect for him and
I'm not trying to bury him here at all.
But you don't say that and you don't say that because and he's
smart enough to know this, that the Saint Louis's population in
the 1950s and he's on post World War 2, you know, the greatest
generation, the factories, everybody pumping.
You can actually buy a home and not be buried in debt.
But don't get me going. But it was nearly 900,000 people
in the city in the like the inner limits of Saint Louis.
That's how many residents they have.
You know what it is now from 900,000.
Basically one. Is it like 8 mil now?
No. No 900.
No. No, Think about it.
Saint Louis, the city, 900,000 people were there thriving in
the 1950s. What do you think the number is
now? I was going to say 5 million.
About 280 No, you go in the wrong direction.
Wait, you're saying there's less people?
Yes, that was. Wait, there's less people
thriving or there's less people in general?
Everything I think. I think it goes.
Oh, interesting. Well, Jake, I thought you were
saying that there was like more people.
So it's caused like a like a like a desert, like a wasteland
of resources. OK, I could see why you would
think that. No, Interesting, but the
completely wrong direction. I see.
So you're saying so people are out?
They left. I mean, business is like kind of
like New York too. I mean, it's not that different
than just a lot more people here, 900,000 people in 19 in
the 1950s, it's down to 280,000 people, 280,000 people.
In the entire city. Yes.
Are you talking about 600,000 mass exodus of?
People and that's not I mean, obviously it's still a city, but
like you compare that to even other.
Major cities, but it's as big as it's as big as I'll give you.
I'll give you geographical perspective.
If you're in the Northeast and you, it's as big as Newark.
There are as many people in Newark as there are in Saint
Louis. Think about that.
Yeah. So anyway, I again, I don't
think Gary was trying to. I don't think he was trying to
be insensitive. I think he was trying to be
witty or I, I don't know. I'm going to give him the
benefit of the doubt, but it wasn't funny and it wasn't
witty. And by the way, you know,
whether it's Queens or, you know, whether you Gary, just
open your eyes in New York City, it smells like weed.
It smells like piss. And people are leaving New York
as well. Like we're not sitting here on
some beautiful tropical island with coconuts and, you know, I
mean, and and and and and hanging out in the cabana by the
pool, you know, working the grill every day.
Where? What was a parking lot?
Like it's literally just a parking lot and some cross
streets. There's no beautiful residential
area around that. It's literally OK, here's a big
parking lot. You walk for like 10 minutes
around the left and get to the side Coliseum thing.
Like it's not beautiful. What?
And I mean, obviously people live in this city, but like no
one lives around that area. Really not Really not not in the
direct. Facility.
No, no. It's going to be beautiful as it
builds up. But what do we got?
Absolute Ben Affleck. Ben Affleck's Double Chin, 4170.
Does he have a double chin? It depends.
His weight fluctuates a little bit, Ben.
Maybe in a what's a what's a movie where he.
Was he's been in so much in movies?
Well what was the bad one? GG with with God with Lopez, not
Geely Gee, was that it? Hustlers.
No, he's been in so many. God, he was been in so many.
Ben, I love Ben Affleck's movies.
Yeah, man, I really do pop up a few as we're looking at this.
Yo, BT Bay Area misses you. Oh, wow.
There you go. There's some people listen to us
out there. Yeah.
I was doing a show with Eric Davis.
I don't know. I'm certainly not a goaton.
I'm not a goat anywhere, but thank you.
E DS considered a goat by some. He actually picked off Troy
Aikman in the NFC Championship game that brought the Niners to
the Super Bowl. So that was my partner doing
drive time out there. Oh my God this dude has a wild
profile picture too. I don't know if you saw it.
I didn't see it. It was like a pumpkin, but it
was like a pumpkin shaped like a butt.
Like, sorry to be a little crass here.
Oh no, dude, no. That's so offensive.
We can't possibly have that. What do we got here, ma'am?
At. In at.
Edwin Edwin Robles. Jeez.
I wish, you know, that's where I wish there was a little space or
a little hyphen. Edwin Robles, 6016.
What up, man? So put that up again.
Oh wait, yeah, my bad. Yeah, I did see him throughout
the first pitch at Yankee Stadium when he short hopped the
pitcher. I I think if I remember that.
Thank you for that. I remember.
Did he have a Yankee jersey on or a jacket?
I think it was a summer night, so I don't believe it was the
blue Yankee jacket. I believe he went out there with
a jersey. Stephen A wasn't a baseball
player. Stephen A was a basketball
basketball player. Thomas Jefferson High School
played a little bit in college as well.
And his but, but you know, I've never seen him shoot.
But I know, I know we can shoot because I because I've seen
people. I know people will play with
them. And I asked him, I'm like, yeah,
you ever you ever dunk 1? Did we believe him with that?
He wasn't exactly OK. I believe he yeah, listen, I
believe he's done A1 handed rim Grazer a little 2 handed, but in
terms of a back scratcher this I don't.
Know no I. Don't believe that we used
especially back in the day too. Like I don't know if like the
idea of a back scratching dunk was really conceptualized.
Well, he definitely wasn't doing that.
I'm just wondering if he ever really even squeaked it down
like he said he did. That's what we used to call it.
Like if you, if you, if you really put one that was a
squeaker. I squeaked it home.
Ah, squeaker. You got it.
See, for us, for us slow white guys, I'm going to give you my
version of the dunk. And I love doing this, man.
Yeah, it was fun, especially in the park because the metal
backboards little. Clap Oh the.
Slab little clap, did you were you ever able to dunk?
I could dunk. No, no, no, no.
OK, what I could do? I could dunk a obviously a
tennis ball. Yeah.
And when I was in college, there were, yeah, at Maris, we had
this big, big, it's called McCann Arena.
And everybody, like everybody would work out in there.
Like, obviously that's where the basketball games would be, but
that's where we would get ready for the baseball season.
And volleyball would use that as well.
So sometimes it'd be a volleyball laying around the
corner of the arena. And, you know, I could take a
volleyball because I could palm it, right.
And if I got a massive running job, but if my hamstring wasn't
sore, and it usually was, I could, you know, I could, I
could squeak one down like it wasn't pretty.
It wasn't, it wasn't a hammer job.
It was just a enough to say, yeah, yeah, I could barely dunk
a volleyball. Tennis ball was pretty easy.
No, never even came close to dunk like a real ball in the
way. But the clap, there were a
couple of ways to do the clap. This was awesome.
Like if you're on the baseline and somebody gives you a pass
and like the baselines open and you go up.
So. Oh.
So you're going like I'm going sideways A.
Little, yes, a little sideway. Yeah, a little.
Sometimes if you had, if you felt good, a little sideways and
you're going, you're going this way.
I still haven't figured out that way.
Right. It just, and then the ball and
the ball's popping out and it's boom, boom off the backboard.
So you clap and then bang, boom. Oh, that's it.
OK. But the better one was when you
had a fast break, because then you do it wouldn't actually be
like a finger roll, right? But it would be like a reverse
almost like you're going to finger roll.
And as you, you, you clap the board.
Come on, old school, old school white guys who couldn't jump hit
me up on the jump. Come on, jump in.
You would clap and it would make a sweet noise and it just felt
so good. And then like you run down the
court like you have like a basketball jog, like cold or MJ.
Oh geez, bitch. So the clap.
The clap was my dunk. It was.
That's too funny. What else we got?
Speaking of hoops, a little Final Four.
Oh man. Yeah, yeah, Should be there.
I I think it's fitting that I'm wearing black today, although
this is my daughter's softball team.
How? How sweet is that?
Oh, that's a sick How do you eat?
That's nice, right? Yeah.
Shout out to the Lady Knights. Good little squad there.
I never really wear it. I'll wear it to every one of her
games. I don't wear it on the air
because I've got the black background, which I still have
to fix with the lights. I know I will.
I get it. But this is this is like
graffiti style, which is that's going up my alley.
But fitting that we're wearing black today because right now
and we're having a great show, having a blast Easter weekend,
going out to Dallas this weekend.
Can't wait. It's going to be really fun.
But I should be in Indianapolis is where I should be.
I should be in right now. I should be sitting in the team
hotel carving out a little space with my guy Mink doing a I'm
doing a preview, you know, doing a preview, getting ready for
Illinois because that's who UConn is playing.
And again, I don't even know. Like, you know, listen, they
should have won the Duke game. They should have will they have
beaten Duke UConn again? I don't know, but I'm just going
to make the assumption because it makes me feel better a little
bit. I don't know.
I don't know, You know, if they were playing Illinois, would
they be favored? Would they be dogs as it depends
upon what the previous game in the elite able to look like?
I don't know, but we're not there.
Four teams are still a great season for Saint John's.
Now they got a crush, which they will the transfer portal.
So the first games, Illinois and Yukon, I'm not going to get into
like previewing the game. That's boring.
I want to give you one thing you want to want to look for,
though. I I don't love AN849849.
Yeah, no. That's a weird tip time.
Like 8. 49 on the Saturday before Easter.
That's Give me 6, give me 5, give me 530.
Oh my God. Yes, so obviously you got a lot
of high seats here. Illinois is the three seat
Yukons to two, Michigan and Arizona, obviously both the
ones. But think about this.
If you're a young kid and I don't I don't mean two years
old, but if you're you know, 789 and you really love basketball,
right and you want to watch this even if you're not an Arizona or
a Michigan fan, when they say 849 all right, it probably will
mean, although if the first game goes late, then you still have
to have the 30 minutes whatever. So it might not even be 849.
So it's 9:00 basically, and in however many hours the Easter
Bunny's coming, if you've been a good, good boy or girl, I mean,
that's just, it's too late, you know, I don't know, like I'm
thinking if this was Christmas Eve, you know, our kids are
getting a little bit older and we do the Santa tracker.
So they, you know, stay up a little bit later.
So good. But it's just not ideal, not
optimal. Anyway, I'm not going to
complain about it too much. It is what it is.
I here's what I will tell you. I think that there's at least,
and I was looking at some of these names, looking at the
rosters and and knowing the players here, I think there's at
least eight NBA players that you will watch Saturday.
So yeah, yeah, yeah. You got Waggler from Illinois,
right, Keith Waggler. You got Braden Burries from
Arizona. You got Yaxel Lindenberg,
obviously from Michigan. 100%. You got Pete from Arizona Stud.
You've got Paris Reed from UConn, you've got Johnson from
Michigan, Caravan from UConn and Mullins from UConn.
That's 12345678. Now I'm not saying all first
rounders, but Waggler Berries, Linderberg and Pete to me are
all first rounders. I wouldn't take Caravan in the
first round. I've seen them play a lot like
them. I wouldn't take them in the
first round. I might take, I might take
Mullins late in the. First round really.
OK, He's, he's got stones, as he said.
He's got stones. He's also got maybe one of the
pure shots in college basketball and he's a skinny freshman.
So imagine him, you know, that's that's what happens with a lot
of these draft picks. Like there's a good chance, I
think there's a very good chance that Mullins gets drafted before
Zubi Ejafour. Zubi Ejafour is a senior.
He's a grown man. He was the biggest player of the
year. He was the Big East defensive
player of the year, you know, should have been all America.
I don't know how he wasn't, but all these accolades, right?
St. John's 31 team, phenomenal
basketball player. I don't think he's going first
round. I think he's going second and
probably more middle late second round because and he's going to
stick because he's going to be able to defend a lot of
positions and he's going to become a better shooter.
I think the mechanics, I think he's he's got enough mechanics
where I'm like, he's going to be a shooter.
I'm not, I'm not saying he's going to be Steph, but he's
going to be a big step out, hit some freeze and defend one
through 5 S. And he's a tireless worker and
he's a phenomenal high character young man.
So he's going to stick in the NBA.
But I don't think he's going first round.
And think about the year that Zoopy had and think about the
year that Mullins had. I mean, it's not even congruent.
I mean, but think about who's going in the first round or
who's going to get drafted first between it's going to be Mullins
because it's about projectability.
He's what, 19 years old? He's a bag of bones at this
point, you know, and, and if you're an NBA scout or if you're
a team, you sitting there saying watching what you're watching
Mullins saying, all right, what does he look like?
Is he like a toddler hero type? I don't, you know, I think hero
might be a bit of a better athlete in terms of getting to
the rim and slicing up and that stuff.
But because we saw that in college, but you put 12 to 15
functional pounds on somebody, maybe not 15.
That's a lot, but like 8 to 10 functional pounds on Mullins.
I mean and his range just stretches out further and I mean
he might be 1 of. The I don't know what it like.
I think of all these guys under the like the Baylor Mullins, the
Caravan, I don't know, maybe it's just like a white guy
thing. Like I see them all as like the
Ty Jerome, Sam Hauser, Baylor Tire.
Man Hauser from Marquette. From Did he play for Marquette?
You played for Virginia I. Know you know.
He transferred, He left. Marquette.
He's got a twin brother. Really, I need to OK, I need to
tap in because I love Hauser. Hey, it.
Was a couple of years ago, obviously, I think that Hauser,
I know one went to Virginia because I remember talking to
Tiki about it when that happened because Tiki's a Virginia guy
and I, I thought the other one stated at.
I thought he stayed there. I remember doing St.
John's games against the Hauser boys.
Yeah. But yeah, it's funny how like
this, Virginia, this has become either way, like how this has
become just like an NBA archetype, just the white guy
shooter, just like the Jack Golke kind of deal.
I mean, I don't think he's making the NBA, but.
Yeah, well, I mean, let's face it.
I mean, you know. Stereoty Hauser.
Yep. Yeah, told Yeah, told you,
March. Hat.
Yep. So listen, there's always a few
guys, you know, that, that that could jump like Rex Chapman,
back of the day, toddler hero's a good athlete.
There's others too, Like the stereotypes are brutal and and
they're dangerous flag. I don't mean this Cooper flag's
different. Yeah.
Oh my. You know, it's different.
But the Yeah. I mean, if you're, if you're a
white American player and you can't shoot.
You're done. Yeah, you're not making the MPA.
Sorry to break it to you buddy, you know?
You got to be either like I mean 7 foot 3 Donovan.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, like and Donovan Klingon,
he's an anomaly. You don't see 72 white dudes
from CT. That's just not a, you know,
that's a once in a literally once in a human race
potentially. Yeah, although listen, Cooper
flag from Maine, where he's from Boston.
He's. From Maine.
You're right, you're right. He's from Maine.
He's a South, he's a Boston, I guess.
New England. I mean, I, I don't, and I'm not
trying to disparage it. I don't, I don't think that
Maine basketball's that good. You know, compared to like New
York and Baltimore and DC and Philly and, and Compton and
other places out West, Southern California, Tech, Texas are
very, Dallas is very strong. What was this guy doing to these
poor kids in Maine in high school?
And you're like 5 foot 6 and you're and you're just good
luck. No, I, I think Maine, what they
do have some of these like New Hampshire and Maine, they have,
yeah, exactly like they have like the Exeter kind of school.
They do. Well, I went to one.
I I went to not as a student. I went to, you know, I told you
the story about when, when I went to Bernard Kings basketball
camp the other day. Remember that?
OK, Well, I also went to another one and it was called, this may
have been the first one that I ever went to.
And it was I loved it, dude. It was called Central
Connecticut. Wait, hold on.
It was at CCSU. No, no.
No, no, my bad. The Connecticut School of
Basketball, not Central. I got the the Connecticut School
of Basketball and I probably went there about three years in
a row. And Nick Mccartick, you won't
know this name. You're too young.
Nick at this point was the head coach at Fordham when Fordham
basketball was pretty good. Sure, they were pretty good,
man. And me and my buddy Pat, Pat
Nashwin, a couple of other kids went from like CYO from
Brooklyn. And, and it was at Saint Thomas
Moore Prep School, which is up in Connecticut.
It was prep school. So I, and it was a nice campus
and Oh my God, it was good basketball.
I had some really good counselors.
That was the best dude. Saint Thomas Moore, Nick
Mccartick. And then Nick's son, Nick the
third wound up becoming an assistant.
I haven't talked to him in a long time at Marist.
He was there for a year when I was at Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Great family, great love the McCarthy.
I mean, I haven't seen them in forever, but great basketball
royalty. Really.
That's how much I I think that then I think Nick went on to
become the, if I'm not mistaken, the athletic director at Stony
Brook. I'm pretty sure that was the
case. Hey, before I go think about
this, pop this up. Just Google past final four
sites. I want.
I haven't been in like a year in in a couple of years.
I think the first one that I went to was an O4 in Saint Louis
or O5. What are those two?
Carolina, Michigan State, Illinois.
Billy Self was at Illinois. Give me the where was the I want
to go from O 4 till about 2010. Or.
Maybe even one or two. Wikipedia does their list in
such a strange way where they show each of the ones here.
Let me throw it up in order. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
See. Indianapolis is a really good
city for the Final Four. It's very easy to get around.
I know we did one in Houston at where the Texans play.
I know we went to Detroit one year.
They played at a Ford Field which was great.
Come on, this shouldn't take 2. Come on, come on, come on.
One SEC. One SEC.
My the issue is my computer with the stream yard just runs.
The site's getting a. Little slower?
Give me 15 seconds. What was your favorite?
What was your favorite Final Four location?
My favorite one. Where did I have the best time?
Let's see, did I? Go to one in Arizona or is that
the Super Bowl or both? My favorite one, I went to
Indianapolis a couple of times. I don't really know which, maybe
maybe Michigan, because I had worked in Detroit for two years
early in my career and I knew a lot of people and Ford Field was
great. And Greektown, go ahead, hit me
up. So, all right, 04.
Saint Louis, so San Antonio, TX. I've been there as well.
The Riverwalk. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was good. Was that 04?
O4 Yep, San Antonio. OK, but that wasn't the first
one. O 5 was Saint Louis.
That was the first one that I
went to. Then where'd we go, Indy?
Indeed. Yep, Yep, you got it.
OK, then Atlanta? I don't remember Atlanta.
I didn't go. Away or O seven, O 7.
I I got sick. I did not go to Atlanta.
Go ahead. O 8 was back in San Antonio.
That was fun. I actually had dinner with
Jerry. Jerry Ferrara.
I was. Telling you.
We were having margaritas on the Riverwalk with my guy Turtle
well. 09 Detroit. That was great.
I think the next one was probably Houston, right?
It back in Indy and then and then Houston and 11:00 and.
What about 2012? Where'd we go there?
Nawlins. Did we go to that one?
No, I went to the Super Bowl in New Orleans.
And then what was the one after that?
Atlanta. No.
Then I stopped. Then Teque and I stopped going
then, and the economics started changing.
Then the budget got a little tighter and they stopped into
this. We went for good.
Me and Teque went for a good 7-8 years.
We had a blast. Wow.
Yeah. A lot of fun.
All right, buddy, what time we
got here? What's about wrapping up?
Give you a little final five. Listen, I may as well give you a
prediction on the Final Four. I think Illinois is going to
beat UConn. Really.
I do. I do.
I think Illinois is going to win that game.
I almost arrived. Well, I really hesitate to say
it because Danny Hurley is a killer, but I'm going to save
the align. I'm actually rooting for U Conn
Keep it in the Big East a little bit.
But I'm going to say Illinois is going to play.
I know most people think it's Michigan.
I'm going Arizona. I think it's going to be Arizona
and Arizona. Yeah.
And then I think if they get to Monday, if it's Arizona,
Illinois, I think your Arizona will crank them out.
I think Arizona, Arizona is. A They have a dominant presence.
I know this season, I know also I met, I met, not met.
I spoke with Tommy Lloyd for like a second a couple months
ago and so. Did you?
He was on, he was on a podcast I did.
So I was like, you know what, I'll ride with my guy right
there. Hey, Speaking of talking with
people, any correspondence? I know you did your job.
Have we heard from Jake the Snake's camp or have not?
No. Jim Duggan's camp.
Yet have not. So today, maybe it's time to to
bring another approach, shoot another arrow, and maybe this
time we take it Twitter, we take it to the Twitter.
And then after that we might have to cut a wrestling promo or
something. Get these guys on No.
I'm out. Call Val Store a little.
A little feud. Yeah, exactly.
Hopefully it won't come to that, man.
I wouldn't do that to those guys.
Old time legends. So we're trying to get that set
up for WrestleMania. Obviously a lot of baseball
today. Final Four.
I want to wish everybody a happy Easter.
Enjoy. Anything planned for the
weekend, what we got? Oh, the music.
Concert tonight, Yes, let's go, let's have some fun.
We sold out, which like I did, I've not played a sold out show
in a minute. Do you get nervous?
So I haven't played a concert since last August.
So yeah, I'm honestly definitely, definitely feeling
it. But it's good Nerves.
It's more so nerves of I wanna perform to the highest.
It's not, It's not. It's like you said with the
pitch. It's not a question of yo, am I
gonna mess this up? Am I gonna da, da, da, da.
I know I got this. Yeah.
It's a question of am I going to perform to the best of my
ability? Yep.
You know, that whole kind of thing is ever is my whole team
gone? It's a it's a concern for the
team. It's.
How many members? How many members in the band?
What do we got? 4.
Me guitar player, piano player, drummer, My boy who's singing 5.
You got 5 and you're on the bass like yes Sir, that's great.
Dude. Do me a favor.
Send me, have somebody video, send me some video over the
weekend. Well, here's what I'll do for
you. Have somebody video it while
you're up on stage and we'll we'll play a minute on the air.
Well, not honestly. I'm traveling Monday.
On Tuesday when I get back. Awesome.
Yeah. All right, I'll definitely do
that for you. What's the name of the venue?
In case anybody wants to try to squeeze in.
Yeah, if you want to go to squeeze in Arlene Grocery, Lower
East Side, 7:30 tonight. Gritty sounds, gritty Lower East
Side. Yeah.
Great. And how many songs are we
jamming? I know you're the same.
There's three. There's three acts you're #2.
We're doing 9 songs so we're doing 3 of my friends originals
and then 6 covers so. Will you sing it all?
Because I know. Not tonight, not tonight.
I, you know, I could definitely see in the future me and my boy
doing some songs where he's singing, I'm rapping or we're
doing something like that. But tonight?
Tonight. No, tonight.
Strictly instrumental. It's funny that I can't wait to
hear it. Good luck, man.
I really can't wait to hear it. You know, it's funny when I ask
you about the nerves, like to me, like if you don't have
nerves before, you don't, you don't care as much.
Like to me. Now, what you've got to do is be
able to manage those nerves. And I'm sure you will, because
then you take that and it becomes a fuel.
And like it to me, it leads to sharpness and clarity.
It's hard to explain, but even when I do the motivational
speaking, like for that moment right before I get out there,
you know, I definitely just like, all right, man, I want to
win the room over. I want, I want my message to
resonate. I want to do great.
You know, you're paying me decent money.
I'm not here just collected a check.
I want to I want to connect with this room or I don't get nervous
coaching I I do get nervous. You know, he could be 4 for I I
not nervous like I do feel like when when my son and my daughter
are going up to up to hit, that's different that that's
just being a dad. But never get nervous coaching
the game ever get excited. Not we have a game tonight, by
the way, under the lights on the turf.
I can't wait. So never nervous with that.
I IA little bit with the motivational speak even before I
I fire up the show. It's not nervousness, it's an
energy. Trust me, I'm the producer.
I feel a similar. Thing, you know what I mean?
It's the, it's the energy that you got to rein in and it's the
and then, you know, again, channel and and distribute it
the right way. And I think when you do that,
you know, it's, it's going to be an asset, It's going to be a
tool. If you if you don't feel that,
you probably don't give a shit what you doing.
I mean, it's really that simple. No, no way.
I and I think it, you know, it has a lot to do with the fact
that there's an audience. There's an audience who you have
to come through for. Of course, even they said that.
Of course, you know the other thing too.
And man, I really hope that at some point in my life I get here
and I'm playing golf on Wednesday, I'm playing golf on
Wednesday. Oh, let's.
Go first round of the year. Oh boy, I I get nervous before I
go to play golf. Really.
Yeah, it's ridiculous, man. And I know what it's rooted in.
It's rooted in fear. Just to be totally transparent
and embarrassing myself. It's that's all.
It's not like, it's not like I'm going out there and I'm nervous
where I'm like, oh God, you know, I I got to break 90 or I
got to break 100 or, you know, back in the day, you know, when
I was actually playing, OK, like, can I get below 85 today?
Which would happen if it was not that much, but it did happen a
few times, right? It's not even about a
performance anxiety in terms of hitting a certain number,
winning because we don't play for money, you know, here and
there once the trial side, something very rare.
But it's truly me being very aware, especially that I'm
playing righty now and I'm a natural lefty and I know my
swing looks awful and it just takes one person to recognize
you. Like dude, I mean this is.
Just crazy. Like, isn't that crazy?
No, I mean, it's it's tough, I guess, being a public figure,
like a, you know, a partial public figure in that sense
where it's like, you know, I got to be on my game.
Like I can't have like a even like a a mess up that obviously
has no like moral consequence or nothing like but just shows me
as like, oh, maybe I'm not the best golf player.
Maybe. No, there's nothing to debate
about that. And, and it's not even, it's not
even like it's not even I, I promise you, it's not like, oh
man, oh so and so just recognized me on the T or on the
practice range, you know, let me show them up.
But no, it's not like it's not even about that.
It's just about, it's not about trying to look great or show
off, which I can never show off in golf because I'm terrible.
It's about not looking just inept like it's it's really that
that's how low the floor is. Like I have take now.
I've also smashed even righty. I've I've connected, you know,
I've had some good shots for sure, and I chip and I put
lefty. So around the green.
I'm still pretty confident, but I mean I've peppered some ball.
I've hit hybrids 2:30 I've hit five irons, you know, 195 from
like when I when I pure it, I could, I could get it, but I've
also no bullshit, no hyperbole. I have actually swung and missed
on occasion, swung and missed because I'm so in my head with
my grip. This new righty swing like in my
own head, like being so mechanical that I've actually
swung and missed not on the range on the fairway or wherever
I am or actually I've actually, this has happened to me a few
times. I don't know how this happens,
but it's actually happened more than once.
There have been two things have happened.
There have been times on the tee box where I might give it.
Yeah, not supposed to get. I mean, I'm not talking about
par three with A5 iron in my hand, some out a par 4 or par
five with the driver in my hand where my divot has gone further
than the ball. Oh man, that's one.
I have also somehow managed to defy physics at the highest
level. I swear to God that this has
happened more than once. Vicious swing off the tee, the
ball winds up behind me. Oh, trust me, I've been there.
You. You've hit the ball behind you.
Dude you don't you're yo if you and I went on a golf outing it
would be like fucking 3 stooges dude.
Even though we're only. 2:00 We'd be so bad.
Yeah, it would be exactly like well.
We're going to have to do that sometime.
It would be so fun. We'll be like DJ, we'll do that
at some point this summer and we'll and we'll film some stuff
and we'll have a little fun with it.
My treat. I'll take you out to play golf.
We'll have a little fun with. That.
That'd be great. Yeah.
Oh my God, that'd be too much. Fun.
All right, dude. All right, I'll get you guys
video of the pitch over the weekend.
I'll get you guys that video, Jay, I'll get you that.
Wait, let. Me just throw that up there.
We go nice. Yes, Sir.
It's going to be an absolute
blast. So I'll get you the video.
I'm expecting something good. You never know, but I'm
expecting something good so you can get that down.
Jay, Thank you very much, dude. Have an awesome weekend as well.
Kill it tonight on the on the stat, on the stage with your
boys. Let it RIP.
Hopefully you meet somebody. Hopefully you have a good night
and I'll be in touch with you over the weekend.
All right, so you can check out now.
I'll talk to you over the weekend.
Also unleash FAM codes after the episode.
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Bang J Rod is on him. Wanna wish everybody a
phenomenal Easter? Have a great time with your
family if you travel and safe travels.
Enjoy the baseball. We're gonna jump into the
Yankees Opening Day home. Open to ceremonies now.
Can't wait to do that. Yankees look great.
Keep it going. Magic like now it's only a
matter of time before the Yanks start banging some balls with
regularity over the over the fence.
So hopefully this is the weekend where it starts.
So now hopefully the Mets get it going a little bit Final four.
I gave you my predictions. I think Illinois is going to win
and I think Arizona is going to win.
I think it's the Illini and the Wildcats on the championship on
Monday. We're in the championship on
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Well worth your while. Have an awesome weekend.
I'll get something out on Monday, but I'm traveling, I'm
flying Monday, so it won't be the conventional show.
I've always done that. The Monday after Easter, I
always take a day off, but I'll get something out there for you,
so look for that. Again, happy holidays, enjoy it.
I'll catch you guys soon. Thank you.